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Kyle Dubiel / NBC What Does SNL Think of Straight Adult Men?
The sketch show’s latest parody of emotionally distant men had a surprising amount of heart.
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Rosalind O’Connor / NBC SNL Is Excelling in One Particular Way
The sketch show’s pretaped segments are outshining its live comedy.
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Will Heath / NBC Aubrey Plaza Gave SNL Permission to Get Weird
The show has seemed stuck in a rut lately; this week’s host brought some much-needed eccentricity.
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Rosalind O’Connor / NBC SNL Bids Farewell to Cecily Strong
The show delivered a moving goodbye to the 11-season veteran during its Christmas episode last night.
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Will Heath / NBC ‘Steve and Marty’ Revealed SNL’s Weaknesses
Even two comedy legends couldn’t help the show.
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Will Heath / NBC The SNL Sketch That Perfectly Mocks Our Upside-Down Reality
The show finally got satire right ... with the help of Hello Kitty.
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Will Heath / NBC Does Dave Chappelle Find Anything Funnier Than Being Canceled?
During his appearance on Saturday Night Live, the comedian opened by addressing Ye’s and Kyrie Irving’s anti-Semitic statements.
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Will Heath / NBC The Loudest Political Voice on SNL
Cecily Strong used a bait-and-switch trick to deliver sharp commentary on abortion rights.
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Rosalind O’Connor / NBC The David S. Pumpkins Effect
The return of the cheery Tom Hanks character let SNL lean into the anarchic comedy of a sketch that makes little sense.
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Rosalind O’Connor / NBC The Host SNL Needed Right Now
Megan Thee Stallion’s charisma brought her sketches to another level—and emphasized the blandness of the rest of the show.
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Will Heath / NBC SNL Needs to Log Off
Last night’s episode featured a limp sketch about the Try Guys’ drama—underscoring how the show flounders when it just rehashes internet culture instead of being original.
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Will Heath / NBC SNL’s Poignant Celebration of Ketanji Brown Jackson Stole the Show
The Black cast members reveled in the historic moment, kicking off an episode full of spark and joy.
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Will Heath / NBC SNL Couldn’t Help Itself
The Oscars Slap was low-hanging comedic fruit, and the show lunged at it. But there was nothing left to say.
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Rosalind O'Connor / NBC The Simple Brilliance of That Amazon Go SNL Sketch
The show delivered incisive commentary by hewing close to shoppers’ realities—and adding a small dose of horror.
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NBC SNL Serves Up a Disgusting Highlight
The show acknowledged the crisis in Ukraine while sticking to its comfort zone. Then it made a turn to the bizarre.
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Will Heath / NBCU / Getty A Vulnerable SNL for a Vulnerable Time
The show has struggled to tackle the grimness of recent events. Last night, John Mulaney proved to be an ideal host.
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NBC War Anxieties Loomed Over SNL
Last night’s episode addressed Ukraine and Russia, but the result was less insightful political satire than proof that the show’s writers read the internet.
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Rosalind O’Connor / NBC Weird Is Exactly What SNL Needed
The former cast member Will Forte brought eccentric comedy to last night’s show, and it was a relief.
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Will Heath / NBC ‘The Timeline You’re All Living in Is About to Collapse’
SNL’s inaugural episode of 2022 turned to dark, and often awkward, absurdity to explain our exasperating moment.
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Will Heath / NBC When Saturday Night Live Tried to Keep the Lights On
The show just aired one of its strangest and bleakest episodes, courtesy of the Omicron variant.
